Dama

Dama, “restraint”

Dama is a name used for more than one thing and person in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.

Things and ideas

• Dama: Self-Restraint as the Highest Dharma: self-restraint, control of the senses and inner impulses, which the Śānti Parva calls the foremost dharma. Mahābhārata, Śānti Parva, Āpaddharma Parva, Chapter 160; Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 238

People

• Dama: the son of King Narishyanta and Indrasenā, who won Sumanā at her svayaṃvara and avenged his father’s murder. Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

Named in passing

• Dama, son of Marutta: the son of King Marutta of the line of Dishṭa, after whom the line runs through Rājyavardhana to Tṛṇabindu, told on Ikshvāku Vaṃśa: The Solar Dynasty. Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 9, Chapter 2